Mostly About Organized Crime

04/11/2013

The new administration of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto "has sought to
downplay the deadly violence" among rival drug cartels that has plagued much of his country but the facts belie the propaganda as reported by Tracy Wilkinson and Cecilia Sanchez for the Los Angeles Times: "newly released statistics indicate the number of homicides related to
drug trafficking and other organized crime are only marginally changed
from the same period last year, a blow to the government's attempts to
recast Mexico's image."

It's unclear what the Peña Nieto administration means by offering a
quieter approach in dealing with the drug cartels, and hopefully it does
not entail negotiating a secret pact by which the narcos are allowed to
operate in exchange for peace. In the past some branches within the
Italian government allegedly made deals with the devil to end the
Mafia's stragismo -- strategy of terror -- to disasterous results.

When Peña Nieto won the Presidential election last July some predicted a capitulation to the cartels as then reported by Erin Carlyle for Forbes:
"the new government is likely to be a lot less confrontational with
people like the world's most powerful druglord: billionaire Joaquin 'El
Chapo' Guzman Loera."

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12/24/2012

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has been in office less than a month, and already he may be signalling an abandonment of the aggressive strategy against the drug cartels by his predecessor Felipe Calderon.

The Peña Nieto administration is claiming that Calderon's "efforts to stamp out drug trafficking by going after the
kingpins has only succeeded in splintering the gangs, spawning many
smaller and more dangerous criminal syndicates" as reported by The Guardian.

President Peña Nieto and his team have offered no details on an alternative strategy by which to bring down the narco insurgents which grip Mexico only to oddly state that "the pursuit of capos . . . will be a quieter
affair than during the Calderon administration," and "their neutralization
presented with less fanfare" as reported by Richard Fausset for the Los Angeles Times.

It's unclear what the Peña Nieto administration means by offering a quieter approach in dealing with the drug cartels, and hopefully it does not entail negotiating a secret pact by which the narcos are allowed to operate in exchange for peace. In the past some branches within the Italian government allegedly made deals with the devil to end the Mafia's stragismo -- strategy of terror -- to disasterous results.

When Peña Nieto won the Presidential election last July some predicted a capitulation to the cartels as then reported by Erin Carlyle for Forbes:
"the new government is likely to be a lot less confrontational with
people like the world's most powerful druglord: billionaire Joaquin 'El
Chapo' Guzman Loera."

Who knows: the fix may already be in place.

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09/03/2012

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has not made life easy for the drug cartels, and over his six-year term which ends on December 1 his get-tough policy has cost the narco traffickers $14.5 billion in lost product and cash as reported by The Telegraph:

In the past six years, authorities have seized 114 tonnes of cocaine, nearly
11,000 tonnes of marijuana and more than 75 tonnes of methamphetamines. More than 100,000 vehicles, 515 boats and 578 aircraft have been confiscated
along with more than $1 billion in cash.

Of course, the drug cartels earn as much as $64 billion each year largely by supplying the party people of the United States.

Calderon also has modernized the federal police force -- which has grown from 6,000 to 36,000 officers during his term -- to supplant often corrupt local departments in the fight against organized crime as reported by The Associated Press.

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07/03/2012

Mexican voters swept Enrique Peña Nieto and the historically corrupt Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) into power in their Presidential election on Sunday, and in short have capitulated to the drug cartels as reported by Erin Carlyle for Forbes: "the new government is likely to be a lot less confrontational with people like the world's most powerful druglord: billionaire Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman Loera."

Outgoing President Felipe Calderon from Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) -- one of the few men in Mexico with the cojones to take on the narco insurgents -- likely will leave his ungrateful country for safer pastures as reported by William Booth for The Washington Post:

In meetings, President Felipe Calderon has been telling guests that he and his family are likely to leave Mexico to live abroad after his term expires in December. It will be too dangerous to remain, he warns in private conversation, because powerful drug mafias might come after him.

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